Using the mouth, lips, tongue and voice to generate sounds that one might never expect to come from the human body is the specialty of the artists known as beatboxers. Now scientists have used ...

Beatboxers can create the sound of snare drums, basslines, high hats and other beats all at once. And while it’s entertaining to listen to, what’s the science behind those beats? Scientists scanned ...

A team of scientists from the University of Southern California (USC) are taking on a decades-old mystery concerning the human brain and how it processes utterances that aren’t linguistic in nature.

According to new research by a voice expert, beatboxing may actually be gentler on injury-prone vocal cords. You might think that beatboxing, with its harsh, high-energy percussive sounds, would be ...

Which, do you imagine, is harder on the human voice: [rock singer sound], or [soprano sound]—or this [beatboxing sample]? Beatboxing, as musician Tom Thum was doing in that last example, uses the ...

Alok Jha and guests discuss electric voice music, the Pestival insect exhibition, the progress of the 10:10 climate change campaign and monkey melodies Dan Stowell, a computer scientist at Queen Mary ...

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Engineers and scientists at the University of Southern California are studying MRIs to learn more about how beatboxers are able to make such unique sounds. Video courtesy of Inside Science Follow ...